[Xen-devel] Re: Xen bug or VMware bug?

["Kip Macy" <kip.macy@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 26, 2007 4:37 AM, Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 25/12/07 10:16, "Kip Macy" <kip.macy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Correct. Just start it up on a PAE xen.
> >
> > As it turns out *any* in-place updates to the L3 - even putting a zero
> > where there is currently a zero - will cause a system reset. At least
> > on VMWare Fusion. I've worked around it for the moment by allocatng a
> > new L3 and then switching to that.
>
> I can't reproduce this with xen-3.1-testing.hg c/s 15547 on real hardware.
> Although the domain does crash in a fairly intricate and interesting way.
> I've appended the Xen logging of the domain crash. I assume your 'whole
> machine' crash is simply inaccurate emulation of native behaviour by VMware
> Fusion.

Excellent, I'm glad to hear that it is a VMWare Fusion bug (as opposed
to an easily triggered Xen bug). PAE isn't expected to work just yet,
so *a* crash is expected.


Thanks.

    -Kip



>
>  -- Keir
>
> #8, proc0kstack=3227074560
> xen_setbootenv(): cmd_line='root=/dev/hda1 ro 4'
> gdt=0xc0596000
> PTmap=0xbf800000
> (XEN) Unhandled page fault in domain 1 on VCPU 0 (ec=0000)
> (XEN) Pagetable walk from bfe02cb4:
> (XEN)  L3[0x002] = 00000000aec46001 0000059c
> (XEN)  L2[0x1ff] = 0000000000000000 ffffffff
> (XEN) domain_crash_sync called from entry.S (ff17f5a2)
> (XEN) Domain 1 (vcpu#0) crashed on cpu#3:
> (XEN) ----[ Xen-3.1.3-rc1-devel  x86_32p  debug=y  Not tainted ]----
> (XEN) CPU:    3
> (XEN) EIP:    e019:[<c040a7e7>]
> (XEN) EFLAGS: 00000206   CONTEXT: guest
> (XEN) eax: 000c0596   ebx: 00000098   ecx: deadbeef   edx: deadbeef
> (XEN) esi: c04f2184   edi: 00000000   ebp: c0595d84   esp: c0595bf4
> (XEN) cr0: 8005003b   cr4: 000026f0   cr3: 00260d20   cr2: bfe02cb4
> (XEN) ds: e021   es: e021   fs: e021   gs: e021   ss: e021   cs: e019
> (XEN) Guest stack trace from esp=c0595bf4:
> (XEN)    00000000 c040a7e7 0001e019 00010006 c0492b92 bf800000 00000000
> 00000001
> (XEN)    00000000 00000000 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> 00000000
> (XEN)    00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> 00000000
> (XEN)    00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> 00000000
>
>
>

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